Why even throw that into the survey; Evolution is just a debatable theory. You could have just stuck to cold, hard - repeatable and observable facts
like - is the Earth Round?

More than half said no to Evolution = Correct

I smell conspiracy here, putting Evolution in the survey alongside basic facts to push an agenda and discredit people that don't want Evolution
shoved down their throat as an indisputable fact. Arghhhhh

If a person actually talks with various people out in the world this would be a given. Part is based on the school attitude of "I'll never use that in
real life'". Politicians making major decisions about the school system does not help much either. Most of them seem to be a bit short in the smarts
area.

Does nobody realize that intelligence works on a bell curve? Statistically 50% of the population is below average intelligence. It isn't surprising
that dumb ideas can be persuasive. Though I do blame a bit of this on dropping education standards.

a reply to: compressedFusion
That's a badly biased survey intended to make the US look good and higher than European countries. You could just a well have a "far east" group to
eliminate the high South Korea results. You cannot group together EU countries in order to garner info about education due to the vastly different
educational histories across Europe especially when you compare west European to east European.

Split up the EU into countries and the resuts will make the US look far worse......

P.S. you mentioned statistics, well you have fallen for the biggest con of all, lower the average by grouping unlike results !!!

originally posted by: Aleister
Remember a couple weeks ago when the TV salespeople were discussing if the moon was a planet or a star? How can we expect better if reality shows and
other things like "Say Yes to the Dress" are today's equivalent of the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations.

When was the last time Shakespeare has been presented on a major network in prime time? Well, okay, probably the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Shakespeare is a fictional character. He has nothing to do with reality on our planet or science.

originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Read it and weep folks, people are thinking the sun goes around the earth. . . .

Bwhahahahah how could people be so uneducated in 2015?

Every two years, the National Science Foundation conducts a survey as part of a report called Science and Engineering Indicators that's presented to
the president and Congress. In the survey, they ask questions to get an idea of Americans' grasp on basic science. They just did it again, and the
results weren't so good. More than 25% answered that the sun revolves around the Earth, less than half said yes to evolution, and only 39% said the
universe began with the Big Bang.

And I bet the same don't believe in climate change.

And let me guess, most of these people are on the right half of the political sphere.

Before people jump on me for engaging in the false duality of the political sphere in America, I understand that as far as elections and actual
policy.

Read it and weep folks, people are thinking the sun goes around the earth. . . .

Bwhahahahah how could people be so uneducated in 2015?

Every two years, the National Science Foundation conducts a survey as part of a report called Science and Engineering Indicators that's presented to
the president and Congress. In the survey, they ask questions to get an idea of Americans' grasp on basic science. They just did it again, and the
results weren't so good. More than 25% answered that the sun revolves around the Earth, less than half said yes to evolution, and only 39% said the
universe began with the Big Bang.

And I bet the same don't believe in climate change.

And let me guess, most of these people are on the right half of the political sphere.

Before people jump on me for engaging in the false duality of the political sphere in America, I understand that as far as elections and actual
policy.

But things like this are a different story.

-Former science teacher

Something is really wrong, people shouldnt be this dense, seriously what can we do to fix this?

Read it and weep folks, people are thinking the sun goes around the earth. . . .

Bwhahahahah how could people be so uneducated in 2015?

Every two years, the National Science Foundation conducts a survey as part of a report called Science and Engineering Indicators that's presented to
the president and Congress. In the survey, they ask questions to get an idea of Americans' grasp on basic science. They just did it again, and the
results weren't so good. More than 25% answered that the sun revolves around the Earth, less than half said yes to evolution, and only 39% said the
universe began with the Big Bang.

And I bet the same don't believe in climate change.

And let me guess, most of these people are on the right half of the political sphere.

Before people jump on me for engaging in the false duality of the political sphere in America, I understand that as far as elections and actual
policy.

But things like this are a different story.

-Former science teacher

Something is really wrong, people shouldnt be this dense, seriously what can we do to fix this?

I agree. An the public awareness/education gap is a major block to progress, policy, you name it.

It's stuff like this that makes me reconsider going back into education.

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